A Pinnacle captain with some balls

[JimNtexas]

If you use your cellphone for business purposes it becomes tax-deductable.

If those expenses exceed 2% of your income.

 

[FN FAL]

If those expenses exceed 2% of your income.

What's 2 percent of 12,000.00?

 

[Captain Overs]

Again you pin the happiness of the passengers squarely on the actions of the crew but that just ain't all there is to it - and with 15,000 hours you KNOW that!

It may well be an outrage but the pilot was WELL within his rights to decline to use a form of communication that is a) probably illegal once the plane is underway according to their own pre-departure briefing, and b) generates a cost of operation to be bourne by the company, not it's employees.

A company with some class gets its ducks in a row. This one clearly doesn't - at least not all the time - and therein lies the outrage sir. Leave the pilots out of it. They're just doing their jobs.

I pin the happiness of the passengers squarely with the crew when they are IN YOUR CUSTODY. I realize you guys are frustrated, but management doesn't care. They don't care if that flight is late. The only people being punished are the PAX.

 

[iflyabeech]

I wouldn't expect an airline that paid its pilot prostitutes $15,000 a year to reimburse them for anything---much less a cell phone. Do they have any idea how uncomfortable the ride is in the back of one of those RJ's? Especially when you aren't going anywhere.

 

[405]

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[Metro752]

How do you live off of $15,000 a year. Live with mom and pop till they decide to pay your more than a professional burger flipper?

 

[buckwheat]

Why not use the bat phone?

 

[405]

Huh?

It's DCA. No 9E radio there.

 

[Waylon]

I totally agree with the PCL captain. If a cell phone is a resource they want us to use then they should pay for it. The more airline management can get for free the more they will want for free.

 

[hoover]

A professional does what is necessary to get the job done, consistent with safety and legality. A spoiled brat sits and and pouts "Not my job" when things don't go his/her way.

We would all do well to remember that there will come a day for each of us when, in order to get something we want or need, we will have to rely on the kindness, generosity, and the "can do" attitude of another person.

If there is justice in the world, one day that Captain is going to need something from one of those 50 passengers that were on his plane.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

A spoiled brat....

So you are calling this Pinnacle Captain a spoiled brat? Hahaha..spoiled by what? His huge salary and excellent work rules? Thats funny.

 

[k_EAT=ho_ME]

A professional does what is necessary to get the job done, consistent with safety and legality. A spoiled brat sits and and pouts "Not my job" when things don't go his/her way.

We would all do well to remember that there will come a day for each of us when, in order to get something we want or need, we will have to rely on the kindness, generosity, and the "can do" attitude of another person.

If there is justice in the world, one day that Captain is going to need something from one of those 50 passengers that were on his plane.

Not flaming you, but it is a little hard to take your comments seriously when I don't know what your background is. Are you a pilot, or a corporate motivational speaker? It makes a difference. Have you been in a situation remotely similar, or are you a Dr. Phil wannabe?

I've worked for outfits where their view of a professional is someone who gets the job done irrespective of safety and legality. How about you?

 

[buckwheat]

what about airinc.

 

[densoo]

Doesn't the FAA require cell phones to be off after the door closes? Seems at the least the company would. Something to do with critical phase of flight, no distractions.

 

[Cardinal]

A professional does what is necessary to get the job done, consistent with safety and legality. A spoiled brat sits and and pouts "Not my job" when things don't go his/her way.

So on one thread you call Pinnacle "whore's" becasue they're flying a 50 seat jet airliner for relatively low wages. On the next thread they become "spoiled brats" becasue somebody finally held the line. Pick one! Bravo for this guy.